Disclosure: I help manage the lab (hosted by Packet) where we made available the hardware for this testing. If you're interested in testing and sharing your res

Disclosure: I help manage the lab (hosted by Packet) where we made available the hardware for this testing. If you're interested in testing and sharing your results, check it out here: https://www.acceleratewithoptane.com/ https://www.acceleratewithoptane.com/ Yes, they are different products but are both based on Intel 3D XPoint memory media. GCP announced support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, which sits in memory DIMM channels (see https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-readies-widespread-deployment/ https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-optane-dc-persistent-m... for a visual). The Intel Optane DC SSD referenced and tested in the posted article is an NVMe SSD but with different characteristics than NAND-based SSDs you can read about here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-brief.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/o.... GCP's announcement is pretty exciting, and as more and more developers get their hands on both types of products, we'll see more interesting usages like MariaDB ColumnStore, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Postgres, etc. We have our own ideas, of course, but it's been fun making this all available to developers directly and seeing new ideas come up.